Highly Esteemed Dear Friend,
My hearty thanks for the dedication copy of your charming "Nocturnes." "Near the chapel" and "Starry night" belong to my most select intimate Programme.
Aladar Juhasz needs but health to stand forth and hold his own as an excellent artist, virtuoso and composer. The matter of his stipend is now arranged—as we wished it. Juhasz will certainly also greatly distinguish himself at the Klausenburg Musical Festival. My lines of introduction to Trefort, the Minister, must no longer be presented to His Excellency as mustard after dinner. The less scribbling and gossiping the better. "Vitam impendere vero."—
I request that the two accompanying letters in Hungarian may be answered by the General Secretary of the Royal Hungarian National Academy of Music, Abranyi Kornel, in my name. Before I left Budapest we read together the polyphone tattoo by J. K., and I then requested you to make the composer understand that Meyerbeer's far-famed "Rataplan, Rataplan, plan, plan" (in the "Huguenots") is quite enough henceforth for the audience.
Do not delay any longer returning his score to J. Beg Herr P. A. to excuse me for not being a millionaire.
Till the end of July remains in Weimar Yours most faithfully and gratefully,
F. Liszt
Weimar, June 20th, 1880
263. To Freiherr Hans von Wolzogen
Highly esteemed Freiherr and Friend,